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Are Ex-Footballers Really Spreading ‘Far Right’ Conspiracy Theories?

by Steven Tucker
31 July 2024 9:00 AM

Yesterday saw the Trial of the Century beginning at Warrington Magistrates Court, where former Manchester City midfielder Joey Barton is appearing upon absurd charges of making a black woman sad on the internet. I have written about these (non-)events on the Daily Sceptic previously, but shall refrain from commenting upon the specifics of the case again here until proceedings are safely over.

In the meantime, I’d prefer to examine how Mr. Barton has been represented in the British media down the years. Initially, due to his numerous violent on- and off-field escapades, he was presented as an oafish Neanderthal thug. But then, as Joey approached footballing retirement age, all of a sudden he began popping up in the broadsheet op-ed pages, pontificating with unexpected authority on matters of actual public import. It turned out Barton had started a philosophy degree as a launchpad to try and forge a new post-game career as a member of the political commentariat, a bit like Albert Camus (who had begun life as a semi-professional goalkeeper).


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Tags: Conspiracy TheoriesFar RightFree SpeechGuardianJoey BartonLeft-wingMatt Le TissierNazisWoke Gobbledegook

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FerdIII
FerdIII
9 months ago

Love these guys. ‘Far Right’ = someone with a higher than average IQ who can see patterns and knows Fascism when he sees it – ie State-Corporate Fascism as evinced by Rona; Lockdowns; Quackcines; ‘The Science’; Climate thingy; Queer-Trans Gestapoism; Nettard zero; etc etc.

Nothing says Totalitarianism like fraud, censorship and gross intolerance (wasn’t the queer-trans cult screaming about toleration back in the 80/90s?) As the Drumpf said, ‘fight, fight, fight’.

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wokeman
wokeman
9 months ago
Reply to  FerdIII

Hilarious our side are lectured about conspiracy theories yet MSM was plastered in CIA propaganda claiming Russia had blown up their own pipeline after the nordsteam terror attack. For that matter is there a more absurd conspiracy theory than plant food induced global warming?

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JXB
JXB
9 months ago
Reply to  FerdIII

Far Right must be the antipodal of Far Left.

So what characterises Far Left? Collectivism, sovereignty of the State over the individual, no property Rights (property belongs to the Collective), censorship, suppression of dissent, central economic planning and control.

So what is the opposite? Sovereignty of the individual, property Rights, freedom of expression, competitive free market capitalism. That must be Far Right.

The confusion is to believe Fascism is Far Right, whereas in fact its founder, Mussolini, was an International Socialist and the fundamentals of Fascism therefore are those of Marxist Socialism – Far Left.

And those claiming to be Centre Right, aren’t very Right at all.

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RW
RW
9 months ago
Reply to  JXB

The left is characterized by its desire to abolish the monarchy in favour of a democratic republic and the right by its desire to keep a constitutional monarchy, according to the only sensible definition these terms ever had (sitting order in the national assembly of revolutionary france). Neither of both want to abolish the state to spare rich people from the USA the largely ‘philosophical’ pain of having to pay taxes.

The opposite of neoliberalism is human society, what Maggie Fetzer famously declared non-existant.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
9 months ago

In a small way this kind of thing gives one hope – if the Guardian and others are so worried about a tiny number of minor celebrities who are not following the narrative, they know their case is weak.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
9 months ago

A somewhat clumsy and inconsequential article. Too many words for so minor a subject.

I wish Joey Barton well and hope he is not facing a member of the corrupt judiciary.

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wokeman
wokeman
9 months ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

The judge will be a hand picked communist of the ilk who found Trump guilty.

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GlassHalfFull
GlassHalfFull
9 months ago

“appearing to claim the Bucha massacre of 2022, when Russia slaughtered, raped and tortured hundreds of civilians in Ukraine, was staged”

Perhaps Steven Tucker should read The Daily Sceptic more often and he will see that the Bucha massacre was committed by Ukrainian fascists and blamed on Russia.

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Sforzesca
Sforzesca
9 months ago

Le Tissier has been brilliant throughout Clown World.
Anti vaxx, anti lockdowns etc. and has been using his influence amongst former and current players to wake us all up re the dangers of mmRNA jabs.

You may recall Vallance talking to the PFA because hhe was concerned that over 50% of EFL players had refused the jab. Can’t have footballers setting a bad example can we….
Unsurprisingly the FA medics were fully on board with the jabs and strongly advised players to get jabbed. That advice was quietly withdrawn over 2 years ago.

One has only to look at the figures re collapsing athletes to know something is amiss and that’s without even mentioning the huge rise of soft tissue injuries suffered by footballers since the jab. They might not be collapsing in such numbers as before but just take a look at the injury lists of clubs in the Prem and EFL. Some will never play at the top level again due to the difficulties they have healing properly.
At the risk of being described a conspiracy theorist I’d say microclots caused by the jab are to blame.

I’ve no doubt whatsoever that the clubs know what’s going on The injury rates of their jabbed v unjabbed players would make interesting reading as would the position of the insurers.
But Omerta rules.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
9 months ago
Reply to  Sforzesca

“At the risk of being described a conspiracy theorist…”

I much prefer the more accurate descriptor – conspiracy realist, which in reality is what most DS subscribers are.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
9 months ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Or as Godfrey Bloom puts it….Conspiracy analyst.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
9 months ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

Good point.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
9 months ago
Reply to  Sforzesca

Do you remember that Footballer asked if he’d had the jab on Sky I think, he said “I’ve not had anything at the moment no”…..I will blame his youth for not telling them what I put into my body is none of your concern. I will note beck in 2005 at a Railway Station the day after 77 attacks, some busybodies told me I can’t use the Station for the toilet and a drink, I just explained why I always use this Station and the guy just shrugged his shoulders. The brass neck when I look back. We were all young and green once!

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wokeman
wokeman
9 months ago

Huge fan of Matt le Tiss long may he keep questioning the nazi narratives we are spoon fed.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
9 months ago

“as with his unfortunate post about Bucha”

From what I remember about that incident, bodies were moved along a road that were not there before. I have no idea the significance of that now without looking into it again, UK Column did a piece on Bucha at the time. In the fog of war, Matt’s view on the issue by default is reasonable. Does the author of this blog have hard evidence that it happened the way the MSM claim, if not shut up!

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JXB
JXB
9 months ago

Just by coincidence – so can’t be a conspiracy – the US media simultaneously adopted the word ‘weird’ to describe Trump and Vance.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
9 months ago
Reply to  JXB

Because using Hitler rhetoric hasn’t worked considering his assassination attempt.

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RW
RW
9 months ago

As I already wrote once in the past: What ‘them English’ refer to as goosestepping, despite geese certainly don’t walk in this way, is the way Prussian soldiers were to move their legs on parades and public guard duty, very likely since the times of Friedrich Wilhelm I. (1688 – 1740, father of Friedrich II.). It has no non-accidental relations to ‘Nazis’ which is nicely shown by the fact the National People’s Army of the GDR kept this German military tradition until the fully americanized Western Germaners took over in 1990.

Methinks Tucker doth protest too much: It it’s ok to pain NAZI! onto at least 300 years of a German history despite that’s factually – frankly – idiotic, why wouldn’t it be ok to paint NAZI! onto a bunch of footballers Guardian authors harbour a grudge against for some reason? Was dem einen recht ist, ist dem anderen billig, ie, if it’s ok when you do it, it must be ok when your political opponents do it as well.

Here’s a suggestion: As an experiment, try writing a complete article without repeating hackneyed tropes of the Allied anti-German war propaganda, just to see if you can ly can free your mind from it to this degree. It’s not that this dubious stuff is still much relevant anymore, considering that the war is over and has been for some time.

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Free Lemming
Free Lemming
9 months ago

These are just clumsy attempts at masking who they are really aiming their derision at – the working class. Replace ‘footballers’ with ‘working class’ (as most obviously are) and this is what the supposed intellectual class are saying under the hood – ‘footballers’ is simply their alias for the great unwashed.

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Jabby Mcstiff
Jabby Mcstiff
9 months ago

There is no bloody far right. I lived in Northern Ireland as a child and this was in a difficult period in the early 1980s where lots of workers became unemployed. They would be considerd far right by English standards and yet it was more that thet had a sense of local attachment and they cared about their neighbours. They looked after elderly people. People left thei front door open because the trust was there. This isn’t an attack on the ‘far right’ it is an attempt to remove any sense of kinship. If you attune yourself to it you can see it everywhere in our culture. You can’t lose that because that’s what they want – complete atomization of the population prior to destruction.

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Smudger
Smudger
9 months ago
Reply to  Jabby Mcstiff

Divide a rule!

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Jabby Mcstiff
Jabby Mcstiff
9 months ago

They don’t know the seriousness yet. Our people haven’t t even started to fight. We still have in our ranks enough strength and genius to fight back.

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Jabby Mcstiff
Jabby Mcstiff
9 months ago

In termasof natural resources we will have nothing left and no one to provide them. In such times it isn’t the survival of the fittest that counts – such people are rejected, It is those who learn to co-operate with each other. If you don’t have that ability then you are already dead. Just wait a few more weeks and you will undrstand. Your fear will be long gone.

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Grahamb
Grahamb
9 months ago

Is Steven tucker paid by the word?

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Richard Austin
Richard Austin
9 months ago

If Far Right means that you call a bloke in a womens boxing Olympics a bloke who broker a womans nose what he actually is then I’m proud. He failed a sex test twice and has no right to be in the Olympics beating up women.
Worse than him though are those in the reports who keep insisting he is a she. It seems to me that anything that disagrees with how fine The Emperors New Clothes are is immediately labelled Far Right. The strange thing is that none of these fools seem to realise that the Nazi’s were a far more pure breed of Socialist than they could ever dream of being. Don’t believe me? Read Hitler’s 25th anniversary speech, commemorating his naming of the party, delivered in 1945. Cross reference it to John McDonell 7 years ago.
Incidentally, I don’t care what anyone calls me but I do find being called a Socialist insulting, so do not ever call me Far Right: it was a term invented by British Socialists in the 1930’s.

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